Barber, Harry, Private, 200122, 1st/5th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born: Belper, Derbys
Enlisted: Belper
Previous service number 1536
Also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal
Killed in action 1st July 1916
Buried in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Grave Reference: III A 10
Harry was identified by a disc with the number 1536 when his body was found during the battlefield clearance and reburied in the cemetery on 22nd December 1919
1911 Census
Born Heage, Derbyshire, 1888
A coal miner loader
Son of William, a wire drawer, and Annie Barber, of Nether Heage, Derbyshire
Grave of Harry Barber, Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers
Born: Belper, Derbys
Enlisted: Belper
Previous service number 1536
Also awarded the Territorial Force War Medal
Killed in action 1st July 1916
Buried in Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, Grave Reference: III A 10
Harry was identified by a disc with the number 1536 when his body was found during the battlefield clearance and reburied in the cemetery on 22nd December 1919
1911 Census
Born Heage, Derbyshire, 1888
A coal miner loader
Son of William, a wire drawer, and Annie Barber, of Nether Heage, Derbyshire
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